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Reena's criminal liability in respect of Chloe. In order to assess Reena's criminal liability, we shall look at the possible charges she could face under the Offences Against the Person Act (OAPA) 1861, which deals with non-fatal offences. When Reena surreptitiously removes some screws from Belle's chair and Chloe suffers bruises and scratches by sitting on the chair, Reena's act could constitute a battery: An act by which the defendant intentionally or recklessly inflicts unlawful personal violence upon the victim.1 A battery can be the direct or (as in this case), indirect application of unlawful force to the body of another. Thus in R v Martin2, where the accused placed an iron bar across the exit of a theatre and turned out the lights, he was guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm (GBH) under s.20 of the OAPA 1861, as the escaping audience were injured when they ran into the bar. Reena could be charged...

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